Debian Linux 2008.0 and prior [Medium]

By Security Team on Friday, January 11th, 2008 in Security Notifications | Related Software Packages:

Affects:

  • Debian Linux 2008.0 and prior [Medium]

Description

The xmlCurrentChar function in libxml2 before 2.6.31 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via XML containing invalid UTF-8 sequences.

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CVE Identifier: CVE-2007-6284
Severity: Medium

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